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In their training, student interior designers often learn about the history of their profession. This can be a really important way to give context to their subsequent careers. In this article, I will draw on my experience as an interior designer and educator to discuss the history of this exciting field.

The earliest professional interior designers were based in London – the British had become intrigued by Egyptian techniques of decorating household objects and wanted the same for themselves. London families became desperate to employ an interior designer to create magical spaces and accessorise their interiors. As interior designers came to be recognised as professionals, they increasingly found a need to draw on history to create fabulous results. This was particularly true when creating designs for historic London mansions or listed buildings – they saw historical reflections as a way of preserving the past while also looking to the future.

THE ANCIENT ROMANS

In Ancient Rome, citizens demanded comfort, luxury and wealth. These elements are still important in the work of interior designers across the world today. The lavish decorations, tapestries and iconic stonework today remain as timeless and popular in London as in Tokyo or Sydney. The Ancient Romans adored bespoke furniture and loved quality textiles and expensive fabrics.

MONASTIC TIMES

After the collapse of Roman rule, the church assumed power and largely discouraged the most creative interior designers. Opulent interiors were taken out and interior designers were instructed to install quiet and simple oak panels with dark lines and sharp edges. This influence was felt throughout Europe – from London all the way to Florence.

RENAISSANCE AND REVIVAL

The Renaissance saw the emergence of professional French or French-inspired interior designers. It was a new age of elegance and sophistication, which saw the rebuilding of the London Interior Designer community and a fresh take on creative and beautiful living spaces. A “palatial” feel was rediscovered, and interior designers began to take advantage of new transport axes going through London to the continent and to the Americas in order to rediscover their profession and herald the next generation of design.

This brings to an end my article on how the work of interior designers has changed over the ages. In my next article, I’ll reflect on how interior designers use interior fashions for great effect.

Interior Design: Best of 2009. Fore more, visit: www.home-designing.com This is a video that features the best interior designs we came across this year. The designs featured in this video include the works of some of the world’s top interior designers, furniture makers and 3d architectural visualizers. As such we have not tried to limit the designs to any one room or space. So you are likely to find living room designs, bedroom designs, Kitchens, baths and even kids space design in this video. Hope you enjoy this!

Furniture has been around for as long as humans have been around. As far as the animal kingdom goes we are the only species who adorn their homes with furniture. That’s not to say the Mr Caveman on return from a successful hunting trip with his son didn’t relax upon a fine buffalo leather skin sofa in his living room with a fresh cup of nettle tea on the coffee table of course. There is evidence that early man made an attempt at at least decorating his home. This, in the early days, was mostly confined to rubbing mucky hand prints on the walls and scratching animal shapes onto the living room wall. Early mans flock wallpaper if you will. In the absence of Laurence Llewelyn Bowen or Linda Barker, early man shrugged the need to adorn his home in the fineries of MDF board furniture and rather begin the process of creating a comfortable home for his family that was centered about the fireplace in a very practical solution to bring the living room, dining room and bedroom into the single abode solving many issues we seem to have made worse these days. Sociability for one was at it’s height in our early ancestry. Granted, you were likely to be stabbed wandering accidentally onto your neighbours garden but let’s face facts that was replaced by shooting in the Americas and is still sadly a popular pastime.

What could be more social than gathering around the fire pit after a hard day hunting? The living room of early man was an all in one affair not dissimilar to the bedsit accept with many more creature comforts. The bedroom for example was also part of the living room and although bedroom furniture was hit and miss it had one feature handed down through the eons, the bed. The bed is perhaps the centre of all bedrooms and as far as the bedroom furniture goes is paramount to get the right blend of style with comfort. Our early man would have likely stuffed an old skin with heather and grass to fashion a comfortable bed. This bedroom furniture was also Living room furniture as it’s likely they made comfy leather sofas too. So early man began the furniture revolution through necessity rather than fashion and although the early formation of the continents was yet to be realised there’s almost no doubt they had individual tribal styles akin to the French style furniture, Indian, Italian styles and doubtless something on offer from IKEA too although unlikely as we believe even IKEA aren’t that old!

dining room furniture is another story. Essentially early man would carry his dining room furniture with him and set up his table and chairs wherever he managed to catch a buffalo. This use of portable dining room furniture was a most excellent choice for early man as they were predominantly nomadic so having your furniture with you was paramount. In terms of dining room furniture we assume it was mostly cutlery in flint form and a skin to sit on but very soon as man settled in each continent and they socialised around the fire in the lounge there must have come a time when dining room furniture was needed. The multi functional leather sofas come beds come carpet then transformed into dining room chairs too, without doubt. Soon they would have been sat about the dining room chomping into their daily catches wondering if there was a need for an entertainment unit or in fact what one actually was!

As man became increasingly lazy he invented all types of furniture to make his laziness even more lazy. Long before the use of transport or appliances early man would have created wood furniture to make relaxing at home better. It wasn’t long, in geological terms at least, that early man began to separate the rooms and this gave rise to the living room, dining room and bedrooms that we know today. In the Iron Ages great halls where the norm. Rather than natural caves our ancestors started to build caves from dung, mud and twigs. Think DIY SOS. Much the same format was required. A central fire with sofas around it and toward the edges the bedroom furniture was placed. Again highly social but not very private. The great halls where more likely to be dining rooms for feasting and general gatherings like council meetings for example only more organised.

The early dark ages started to see furniture take shape. Our friends in the Iron Age kept their furniture relatively basic but the advent of the Dark Ages saw style being brought into the design of home furniture. Rooms where also starting to be divided as mankind realised the trouble of bringing the in-laws in for Christmas. The need to be private increased and gave rise to the bedroom and of course bedroom furniture. It wasn’t until relatively later that the dining room started to take shape and soon after that specialist dining room furniture styles began to arrive.

The French led the style revolution as ever and French styled furniture remains as popular today as it did with our relatives hundreds of years ago. Way back in time one simply had to walk to France to fetch quality French furniture and it wasn’t until the coracle became substantial enough that we English began our love affair with importing quality French furniture. the Italians not to be outdone when the word style was mentioned began to create their own unique styles in furniture.

There you have it, a thousand years of home furniture brought up to date. Thanks to early man that today Osborne & Brown are able to offer top quality living room, dining room and bedroom furniture in a range of exciting styles from modern, contemporary to traditional French, Italian and even Indian furniture. It’s all here at Osborne & Brown and there’s no need to risk tribal confrontation, sabre tooth tigers or tar pits because the whole lot is available online at www.osborneandbrown.co.uk with the click of the mouse (not a real one of course).

The kitchen is one of the most important rooms of the home. Since its establishment I has been a place to relax, cook and enjoy family occasions. Have you ever wondered about the history of how the kitchen came about? Well this is a brief history…

The birth of the kitchen as we know it today has been traced back to the 18th century when the invention of cooking equipment such as the stove as well as the development of water infrastructure meant that there was a supply of water into people homes. Before this water was brought in from outdoor sources such as wells and pumps. It as these innovations that began to shape the kitchen as we know it today.

However we can go as far back as Ancient Greece where the wealthy used to have kitchens within the home in a separate room next door to the bathroom. In the Roman Empire however people had to cook in large public kitchens as they did not have the privilege of owning their own. Within these public kitchens were small stoves which allow fires to be lit for cooking food. Like with that of Ancient Greece only the wealthy had their own separate kitchens within their homes which were operated by slaves.

Fast forward to the middle ages in Europe and the kitchen really began to take shape. Typically the kitchen area were between the entrance and the fireplace and it was not uncommon for wealthy people to have more than one kitchen and these kitchens were divided by the types of food that is prepared in them. In some larger homes in Europe the kitchen was sometimes situated in a sunken floor to prevent the rest of the house from smoke plumes.

Throughout the middle ages the kitchen layout did not change much. Open fires still remained the sole method of heating food and due to this kitchens appeared dark due to the amount of smoke and soot. However with the invention of the chimney all was about to change as open fires were now able to be placed near the wall instead of the middle of the room. Due to this the first brick hearths were developed which allowed the storage of wood and a more control over the fire. This changed that face of the kitchen and the ay we cook as pots –which used to be made from pottery- started to be made from highly conductive copper, iron and bronze. The temperature of the fire was able to be controlled by hanging the pots a desired height away from the fire.

Any history lesson would not be complete without Leonardo da Vinci getting a mention and it was his invention of a rotating spit for spit-roasting that propeller that turned by itself. This invention is one of the earliest innovations in cooking and one that we still use today.
In the late Middle Ages kitchens in Europe began to lose their home heating function as they began to move kitchens to separate rooms. The living room was now heated by tiled stoves which were operated from the kitchen and offered the advantage of not filling the room with smoke. Freed from smoke and dirt, the living room began to serve as an area for social functions and becoming a showcase for the owner’s wealth.

Probably the biggest movement  in the history of the kitchen and one which really begins to shape the kitchen to how we know it today is the period of industrialisation. Technological advances such as iron stoves which completely enclosed the fire allowed for much better control and efficient cooking as they allowed the heating of multiple pots.

Then in 1825 the first patent for the Gas stove was granted meaning that gas can be used for cooking. In early 19th century these began to be used in the majority of western homes.

In the second half of the 19th century more changes occurred which further shaped the modern kitchen as we know it. Water distribution and sewers for wasted water were created. As the 20th century dawned electricity began to establish itself as a good alternative to gas and in the 1930s the electric stove was released.

In 1892 German kitchen brand Poggenpohl introduced ergonomic worktops and storage. Then further developments –initially still for higher classes – such as cooking machines with flue pipes connected to chimneys, storage cupboards and tiles really revolutionized the modern kitchen even further

Then Poppenpohl began to innovate further kitchen equipment such as hot and cold water taps, kitchens sinks and the oven. Later on the refrigerator became a common kitchen item. The Swedish kitchen design then took grasp and it was from here that the use of drawers became popular.

Modern kitchen design then began to experiment with different materials such as stainless steel which is still widely used today and more open plan kitchen designs were implemented.

Today there is such as huge array of design out there and you can really appreciate how far we have come and the little innovations that complete the kitchen as it is today. There is a lot more history to it than has been written about in this article however this is only a brief history.

rattan is used quite often in the gardens inside and outside. Contemporary models in real estate today are the most beautiful palms in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Bangladesh and other parts of Eastern harvested built. It is a little unique pieces and sets of wicker furniture, you can choose to create a very fun and enjoyable atmosphere. Rattan furniture is often placed on the outside, but it has also been constructed for indoor use. I think some of the milestones regarding the inclusion of such furniture in the house are the following: A well designed studio furniture in this bed was did in 1948, and all rooms in the 1950s have begun to appear in the collections of most homes. a In fact, furniture to be placed outdoors were used from winter hat, winter garden, terrace or inside. In 1981, there is another time that this variant is the furniture inside from the outdoor use written motion. Most surprising of all is that in more traditional areas of the house, was placed as a dining room. be put in place now, this furniture is from the middle-class households of more than 2002nd There is always a choice of luxury and does not seem to think, since replaced some wood cheap, as it can be used.

current models An example of a very exquisite collection of furniture wicker garden set the recommended Wicker Arizona, is proving to be a fashionable choice. This set includes a lot of chairs, a sofa and coffee table. The panel rattan furniture is characterized by its soft, white pillows. This collection combines clean lines and sharp angles with the glass modernistic look stunning would be mixed in any garden or porch. A collection more up-to-date furniture is wicker cube garden furniture set, which is one of the best in the sale of other collections. This set is reflected in the right way, it is probably built for a lifetime. It is often sold with four chairs, a table and two stools. The Wicker rattan in this finely crafted collection is often dyed black and comfortable cushions are generally of a contrasting color like white. Slim and elegant in design, in all likelihood, it would be sensational, no matter where it is.

Previously, it took much more effort to sell quality furniture search as today. This was the more times before telephones did not even exist, and people travel long distances to find things well done. However, today is the purchase of high quality furniture for sale now easier than ever. This is made possible by the fact that many today for communication and travel arrangements. Home delivery Today more than ever, people are capable of first class, decoration, find accessories, and so easy to live anywhere in the world of IT. Two devices in particular, who does the shopping easier, are nowadays the use of computer and Internet use. People are now able to purchase online day and night with a computer and a computer to the Internet. In this respect, most often these stores is almost always welcomed by retailers and wholesalers. The reason for these industries and businesses are operating in a penalty consistently cash flow more. In the process, they need to find a way to stay in business because they live. It is also in the best interest of their employees, hired them, too. Therefore, it is necessary to provide for these companies and groups the best customer service. This distinguishes it from all others that offer poor service to their customers. For many retailers: an aspect of providing the best customer service they provide the necessary amenities, such as making it easy to buy online. This is to ensure that they are selected over other companies. This convenient way to find furniture on sale today can often be done on the Internet. One of the main advantages of shopping online for products inside the house is in how this type of consumer shopping opens up more possibilities than traditional shopping. In addition, the Internet faster, more effective way for customers to products that are difficult to find for the price they are willing to pay the claim. This is particularly useful when buyers have a small budget available when it comes time to renovate their house. Finding affordable furniture for sale increases the hope for consumers, how many people have found this way, quality product for a fraction of original price. use the Internet to sell furniture, you can first surprised to see how much money can be saved this way. However, they are likely to get used to spending less money.

in their training, interior designers, students often learn more about the history of their profession. This may be an important to contextualize their future careers. In this article, I will use my experience as an interior designer and educator, to discuss the history of this exciting industry. The first professional interior designers have been based in London – the British were fascinated by the Egyptian techniques of decoration and household items was the same for themselves. London families were desperate for an interior designer to create magical and accessorize rooms occupy its interior. As an interior designer, came to be recognized as professionals, they are increasingly the need to rely on history to create fantastic results. This was particularly true in project preparation of historic or listed buildings in London – they saw historical reflections as a means of preserving the past but look toward the future. The ancient Romans In ancient Rome, called for the citizens of comfort, luxury and wealth. These elements are still in the work of interior designers in the world today more important. The elaborate decorations, tapestries and masonry emblematic still as timeless and popular in London as in Tokyo or Sydney. The ancient Romans revered and loved high quality textiles custom furniture and expensive fabrics. MONKS Times After the collapse of Roman rule, took power and the church greatly discouraged the most creative designers of interior. luxurious interiors were removed and the interior designers were commissioned to calm and easy to install oak with dark lines and sharp edges. This influence was felt throughout Europe – from London to Florence. Renaissance The Renaissance saw the emergence of the Interior French or French-style professional. It was a new era of elegance and sophistication, which saw the rebuilding of the Community, and a new look at the creative and beautiful rooms. feel a” palace “was found, interior designers and has started to ignore the benefits of new roads contribute to London for the continent and in North and South America to discover her work back and announce the next generation of design. This leads to an end of my article on the work of designers The interior has changed over the centuries. In my next article I will show you how to use Interior Designers Interior to account for significant impact.